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Curriculum vitae and publication list for Xinyuan Cheng.

Contact Information

Name Xinyuan Cheng
Email Xinyuan.Cheng@campus.lmu.de

Experience

  • 2026 - present

    Munich, Germany

    Scientific Programmer
    Munich AI & NLP (MaiNLP), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
    Developing an open-source, research-oriented toolkit for HLV, including model training, evaluation, and experimental analysis pipelines.
  • 2025 - 2025

    Munich, Germany

    Research Assistant
    Munich AI & NLP (MaiNLP), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
    Contributed to the Premise and PyPremise projects, worked on code development, added tutorials, and improved cross-platform support. Led an empirical study on the meta-evaluation of RAG metrics to benchmark reliability and alignment with human judgments.
  • 2023 - 2024

    Shanghai, China

    Research Assistant
    Computational Linguistics Lab, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Contributed to SwordsmanImp, a Chinese conversational implicature benchmark, with a focus on evaluation dataset construction. Assisted in the ArguGPT project through syntactic and linguistic analysis of GPT-generated argumentative essays.

Publications

Skills

Natural Languages (Fluent): Mandarin Chinese (Native), English (Fluent), German (Fluent)
Programming Languages (Proficient): Python, Bash
Deep Learning (Proficient): PyTorch, vLLM, Hugging Face Transformers, NumPy, scikit-learn
Tools (Proficient): LaTeX, PyCharm, Linux, Jupyter Notebook, VS Code, Git

Education

  • 2024 - present

    Munich, Germany

    M.Sc.
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
    Computational Linguistics and Informatics
    • Master’s student
  • 2020 - 2024

    Shanghai, China

    B.A.
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    German Linguistics
    • {“Thesis title”=>”The evaluation of large language models with regard to the ambiguity recognition of the word "wieder".”}
  • 2022 - 2023

    Munich, Germany

    Exchange
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
    Computational Linguistics